May 22 [14:00 EDT] -- Sony has announced a string of confirmed dates on Aerosmith's upcoming North American tour in support of "Nine Lives."

The band's label, who recently noted that "Nine Lives" has reached gold sales status in the States (by hitting the 500,000 mark), say that the band will kick of its tour in Old Orchard Beach, Maine at the end of June, and so far have mapped out a swing through the Northeast that will take the band through the beginning of August.